Italian skier Sofia Goggia pads super-G season lead with 2nd victory of campaign

Sofia Goggia won her second super-G of the season Sunday in Soldeu, Andorra, and regained a commanding lead in the race to the World Cup discipline title.

The Olympic downhill bronze medallist extended her advantage in the super-G standings to 84 points over Alice Robinson of New Zealand and 116 over Emma Aicher of Germany in third, with two events left.

A race win is worth 100 points.

"I'm still not thinking about it," said Goggia, who bounced back in impressive style, a day after the Italian had her lead reduced to just 20 points following a sixth-place finish in another super-G.

"I'm really thinking day by day, race by race. It was a solid run today, I got back the points I lost yesterday," she added.

With a trademark gutsy run, Goggia beat Saturday's winner Aicher by 0.24 seconds and third-placed Kajsa Vickhoff Lie of Norway by 0.31, posting a time of one minute 25.95 seconds.

Robinson finished 94-100ths behind in seventh.

Italy's Goggia gets her 2nd World Cup super-G victory of the season

Val Grenier, the lone Canadian in the race, was 20th in 1:28.39, 2.44 seconds behind. The native of St. Isidore, Ont., was also 20th in Saturday’s competition.

Goggia and Robinson set up their duel for the super-G title early in the season when they won the first two races, but neither added another win until the Italian's victory Sunday.

Goggia now has nine career wins in super-G but is chasing her first season title in the discipline, having won the Crystal Globe in downhill four times, most recently in 2023.

Canada's Grenier finishes in 20th place at 2nd Soldeu super-G this weekend

Olympic super-G champion Federica Brignone came nearly a second behind her Italian teammate in eighth, improving from her 15th-place finish